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The Cross House
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So awesome to see the original design of the Cross House coming back. This door is perfectly proportioned for that wall and how cool that it was imagined to enter that room under the staircase panelling!
That is going to be so cool.
I spy a portal to another dimension.
Ah, I guess we’re to notice a hidden door.
Me, I was thinking, what do you call that inverted newel post, hanging (dangling? 😉) down?
I will let Ross explain about the woodwork and stairs; don’t think that’s an inverted newel post but decoration.
Tried to look it up. Got pendant and finial, likely from those that have no clue as other replies were newel, inverted newel, stalactite and other responses a bit more rude.
From what I’ve found it appears to be called a Newel Drop.
Thank you for clarifying about the Newell Drop.
So glad for the door to be restored!
Righting another variation & back to original 1894 narrative!
Going to be awesome! But is this in red on the priority list?
Love it! Nooks and crannies and doors tucked under the stairs. Turrets and gables…..the Cross House has it all.
Gonna be so cool! So love the woodwork. 🙂
Love to see more of the original design come back to life. I can’t wait to go through this door into the library! It will be so fancy, in all the best ways.
If there has been a post about it in the past, please forgive me; what is the box on the wall at the upper right? Is it a component of the enunciator system, or was it part of the modifications from the Mouse Palace Motel days?
Hi, Mike!
That is the remote ringer for the telephone closet.
I will restore this feature.
A remote telephone ringer…I hadn’t thought of that. Interesting feature; we forget what a rare innovation telephones were in those days. We were watching some old episodes of Downton Abbey recently, in one of them the house had installed telephone service for the first time; it was amusing to see how the staff reacted to it. According to my grandfather’s cousin, our house had one of the first residential telephones in our town; relatives and close friends were allowed to come one or two afternoons each week to use the phone, and of course whenever there was an emergency, illness or death in the neighborhood, someone from the affected family would be knocking on the door asking to please use the phone.
Great to see this door location return. I can imagine the cozy alcove with the overhead wood paneling and restored bench to the side. Is the vertical line in the lath along the right margin of the door the start of the infill of the original opening? Looks like if that line were followed shifting a couple inches to the left, the vertical trim member at the right of the door would nearly align to the finial coming down from above. Perhaps there’s another vertical break in the lath just to the left of the current cut line at the left door margin.
That’s so cool! It looks like you can see where they patched in the plaster all those years ago from the look of that lath.
What do you use to get the plaster off so cleanly? I’m eager to make some tweaks to create a pantry closet so I can move the cans out of my butlers pantry cabinets and unbox the china and crystal. I might be hosting Easter without those, horror!
So exciting to see progress!